Digital in 2017: Central Asia

All the stats, data, and trends you need to understand the state of the internet, social media, and mobile in Central Asia in 2017. This report is part of a suite of reports brought to you by We Are Social and Hootsuite - read all the other reports for free at http://www.slideshare.net/wearesocialsg/presentations

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2017 GLOBAL
OVERVIEW
2017 DIGITAL
YEARBOOK
NORTHERN
AMERICA
CENTRAL
AMERICA
SOUTH
AMERICA
THE
CARIBBEAN
WESTERN
EUROPE
NORTHERN
EUROPE
SOUTHERN
EUROPE
NORTHERN
AFRICA
MIDDLE
AFRICA
WESTERN
AFRICA
EASTERN
AFRICA
SOUTHERN
AFRICA
WESTERN
ASIA
CENTRAL
ASIA
SOUTHERN
ASIA
EASTERN
ASIA
SOUTHEAST
ASIA
ANZ &
PACIFIC
EASTERN
EUROPE
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OF RESOURCES IN OUR 2017 GLOBAL DIGITAL REPORTS SUITE
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2017 DIGITAL YEARBOOK
INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND MOBILE DATA FOR 239 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD
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CENTRAL AMERICA
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THE CARIBBEAN
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SOUTH AMERICA
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WESTERN EUROPE
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NORTHERN EUROPE
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EASTERN EUROPE
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MIDDLE AFRICA
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EASTERN AFRICA
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
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CENTRAL ASIA
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SOUTHERN ASIA
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
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EASTERN ASIA
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ANZ & PACIFIC
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WESTERN ASIA

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2017
GLOBAL INTERNET USE AND PENETRATIONINTERNET AND MOBILE INTERNET USER NUMBERS COMPARED TO POPULATION
SOURCES: UNITED NATIONS; U.S. CENSUS BUREAU; INTERNETWORLDSTATS; ITU; INTERNETLIVESTATS; CIA WORLD FACTBOOK; FACEBOOK; GOVERNMENT REGULATORY
AUTHORITIES; TENCENT, VKONTAKTE; LIVEINTERNET.RU; KAKAO; NAVER; NIKI AGHAEI; CAFEBAZAAR.IR; SIMILARWEB; DING; EXTRAPOLATIONS OF ALL THE ABOVE.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF ACTIVE
INTERNET USERS
INTERNET USERS AS A
PERCENTAGE OF THE
TOTAL POPULATION
TOTAL NUMBER
OF ACTIVE MOBILE
INTERNET USERS
MOBILE INTERNET USERS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF
THE TOTAL POPULATION
BILLION BILLION
3.773 50% 3.448 46%

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TOTAL NUMBER
OF ACTIVE SOCIAL
MEDIA USERS
ACTIVE SOCIAL USERS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF
THE TOTAL POPULATION
TOTAL NUMBER
OF SOCIAL USERS
ACCESSING VIA MOBILE
ACTIVE MOBILE SOCIAL
USERS AS A PERCENTAGE
OF THE TOTAL POPULATION
JAN
2017
SOCIAL MEDIA USEBASED ON THE MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS REPORTED BY THE MOST ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM IN EACH COUNTRY
BILLION BILLION
SOURCES: FACEBOOK; TENCENT; VKONTAKTE; LIVEINTERNET.RU; KAKAO; NAVER; NIKI AGHAEI; CAFEBAZAAR.IR; SIMILARWEB; DING; EXTRAPOLATION OF TNS DATA.
2.789 37% 2.549 34%

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HOOTSUITE’S PERSPECTIVE: 2017 TRENDS
Social catches up with search for discovery. Search is still king for helping consumers research and
evaluate products and services, but social is starting to rival search for discovery, especially among younger
buyers.
Social commerce shows new promise. Social commerce has been hyped before. However, adoption in
APAC and new features by Instagram and Pinterest makes this an inevitable evolution in consumer behaviour
on social.
Dark social rising. Fueled by mobile and messaging, dark social is gaining ground. Dark social is critical
for marketers to understand, as if you only track social traffic with traditional web analytics, you’re
drastically underreporting the value that social delivers to your business.
Video ignites social advertising. Last year, we saw the domination of social video. The next evolution
is to combine the emotional power of social video with the scale and reach of social advertising.
Organisations turn to connected workforces. Organisations are increasingly investing in the online reach
and customer influence of their workforces with employee advocacy, social selling, and digital skills training.
Click here to download our 2017 Social Media Trends Toolkit to
align your 2017 social strategy with the year’s top social network trends.

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DIGITAL IN 2017: WE ARE SOCIAL’S ANALYSIS
With more than half of the world’s population now online, including billions of people using social
platforms, it’s clear that digital and social should be a central part of every brand’s toolkit. The top
marketing priority now is to integrate digital marketing and social thinking into everything that
our brands do, from products and services, to creating more compelling digital communication,
and even finding new pricing, distribution, and innovation strategies that take full advantage of
our ever-more connected world. Marketers should explore:
Contextual reach: which websites, platforms, apps, and connected services do your
audiences use? Which have the greatest relevance to your brand and its activities?
Engagement: what motivates your audiences to use these digital properties? How can
you use content to inform, educate, or entertain them in ways that will add value to
their lives?
Conversion: how can you take advantage of opportunities like e-commerce and social
selling to help audiences complete their ‘buyer’s journey’, and enjoy your brand’s
benefits wherever and whenever they want?

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TOGETHER WITH OUR IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS AND INSIGHTS
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TOTAL NUMBER
OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF
TOTAL POPULATION
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE PRE-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE POST-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS THAT ARE
BROADBAND (3G & 4G)
JAN
2017
MOBILE CONNECTIONS BY TYPEBASED ON THE NUMBER OF CELLULAR CONNECTIONS / SUBSCRIPTIONS (NOTE: NOT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS)
SOURCES: GSMA INTELLIGENCE, Q4 2016.
25.43 142% 89% 11% 33%
MILLION

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TOTAL NUMBER
OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF
TOTAL POPULATION
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE PRE-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE POST-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS THAT ARE
BROADBAND (3G & 4G)
JAN
2017
MOBILE CONNECTIONS BY TYPEBASED ON THE NUMBER OF CELLULAR CONNECTIONS / SUBSCRIPTIONS (NOTE: NOT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS)
SOURCES: GSMA INTELLIGENCE, Q4 2016.
7.49 123% 88% 12% 24%
MILLION

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TOTAL NUMBER
OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF
TOTAL POPULATION
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE PRE-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE POST-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS THAT ARE
BROADBAND (3G & 4G)
JAN
2017
MOBILE CONNECTIONS BY TYPEBASED ON THE NUMBER OF CELLULAR CONNECTIONS / SUBSCRIPTIONS (NOTE: NOT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS)
SOURCES: GSMA INTELLIGENCE, Q4 2016.
9.59 109% 92% 8% 22%
MILLION

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TOTAL NUMBER
OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF
TOTAL POPULATION
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE PRE-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE POST-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS THAT ARE
BROADBAND (3G & 4G)
JAN
2017
MOBILE CONNECTIONS BY TYPEBASED ON THE NUMBER OF CELLULAR CONNECTIONS / SUBSCRIPTIONS (NOTE: NOT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS)
SOURCES: GSMA INTELLIGENCE, Q4 2016.
4.41 81% 93% 7% 14%
MILLION

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TOTAL NUMBER
OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
AS A PERCENTAGE OF
TOTAL POPULATION
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE PRE-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF
MOBILE CONNECTIONS
THAT ARE POST-PAID
PERCENTAGE OF MOBILE
CONNECTIONS THAT ARE
BROADBAND (3G & 4G)
JAN
2017
MOBILE CONNECTIONS BY TYPEBASED ON THE NUMBER OF CELLULAR CONNECTIONS / SUBSCRIPTIONS (NOTE: NOT UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS)
SOURCES: GSMA INTELLIGENCE, Q4 2016.
21.38 70% 97% 3% 42%
MILLION

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GSMA Intelligence is the unit within the GSMA that houses the organisation’s extensive
database of mobile operator statistics, forecasts, and industry reports. GSMA Intelligence’s
data covers every operator group, network and MVNO in every country – from Afghanistan
to Zimbabwe. Updated daily, it is the most accurate and complete set of industry metrics
available, comprising tens of millions of individual data points.
Leading operators, vendors, regulators, financial institutions and third-party industry
players rely on GSMA Intelligence to support strategic decision-making and long-term
investment planning. The data is used as an industry reference point and is frequently
cited by the media and by the industry itself. GSMA Intelligence’s team of analysts and
experts produce regular thought-leading research reports across a range of industry topics.
Learn more about GSMA Intelligence at http://www.gsmaintelligence.com
SPECIAL THANKS: GSMA INTELLIGENCE

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We would like to offer our thanks to Statista for providing data from its Digital
Market Outlook in the development of our 2017 Global Digital reports. Statista is one of
the world’s largest online statistics databases. Their Digital Market Outlook provides forecasts,
detailed market insights, and key indicators on 9 digital verticals including e-commerce, digital
media, smart home, and eHealth, with 36 segments across 50 international digital economies.
SPECIAL THANKS: STATISTA
78% OF GLOBAL
INTERNET POPULATION
50 DIGITAL
ECONOMIES
90% OF WORLDWIDE
ECONOMIC POWER
MORE THAN 30,000
INTERACTIVE STATISTICS
Learn more about Statista’s Digital Market Outlook at http://www.statista.com/

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SPECIAL THANKS
We’d also like to offer our thanks to the following data providers for
publishing much of the valuable data included in this year’s report:
AKAMAIGOOGLE ERICSSONSTATCOUNTER
Lastly, we’d like to say a big thank you to the TheNounProject.com,
who provided much of the inspiration for the icons used in this report.

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POPULATION DATA: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2015 Revision; US Census Bureau (data up to January 2017); United Nations World Urbanization
Prospects, 2014 Revision.
INTERNET USER DATA: InternetWorldStats (data up to January 2017); ITU Individuals Using the Internet, 2015; CIA World Factbook (data up to January 2017); The
China Internet Network Information Center; The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India; Asosiasi Penyelenggara Jasa Internet Indonesia; Nigerian
Communications Commission; Ugandan Communications Commission, Nepal Telecommunications Authority, various local regulatory authorities; Akamai’s State
of the Internet report (Q3 2016). Time spent, and mobile internet usage and penetration data extrapolated from GlobalWebIndex, Q3 & Q4 2016*. Share of web
traffic data from StatCounter (data up to January 2017). Frequency of internet use data from Google Consumer Barometer (data up to January 2017)**.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA DATA: Latest reported monthly active user data from Facebook, Tencent, VKontakte, LINE, Kakao, Google, Sina, Twitter,
Skype, Yahoo!, Viber, Baidu, and Snapchat (data up to January 2017). Social media usage data and time spent on social media taken directly or extrapolated
from GlobalWebIndex, Q3 & Q4 2016. Facebook age and gender figures and daily usage figures extrapolated from Facebook-reported data, January 2017.
Sincere thanks to Niki Aghaei for her assistance with collecting and understanding social media user data for Iran and the Middle East overall.
MOBILE PHONE USERS, CONNECTIONS AND MOBILE BROADBAND DATA: Latest reported national data from GSMA Intelligence (Q4 2016); extrapolated data from
eMarketer; extrapolated global data from GSMA Intelligence (data up to January 2017); Ericsson Mobility Report (November 2016); usage data extrapolated from
GlobalWebIndex Q3 & Q4 2016; Akamai’s State of the Internet report (Q3 2016); Google Consumer Barometer (data up to January 2017)**; GSMA Intelligence
Mobile Connectivity Index (data up to January 2017) – for more information, visit http://www.mobileconnectivityindex.com/
E-COMMERCE DATA: GlobalWebIndex Q3 & Q4 2016; Statista Digital Market Outlook , e-Commerce industry (data up to January 2017); Google Consumer
Barometer (data up to January 2017)**.
DIGITAL DEVICE OWNERSHIP DATA: Google Consumer Barometer (data up to January 2017)**.
NOTES: ‘Annual growth’ figures are calculated using the data we reported in We Are Social’s Digital in 2016 report. *GlobalWebIndex surveys more than 700,000
internet users aged 16 to 64 ever quarter across 37 countries around the world, representing 90% of the global internet population. **Google’s Consumer
Barometer polls a nationally representative total population (online & offline) aged 16+ in each country surveyed except in Argentina, Brazil, China, India, South
Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, and the USA, where the sample base is aged 18+, and Japan, where the sample base is aged 20+. For more details,
visit http://consumerbarometer.com/.
DATA SOURCES USED IN THIS REPORT

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